meaning of baste
1. To beat with a stick; to cudgel.
2. To sprinkle flour and salt and drip butter or fat on, as on meat in roasting.
3. To mark with tar, as sheep.
4. To sew loosely, or with long stitches; -- usually, that the work may be held in position until sewed more firmly.
5. loose temporary stitches
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